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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust
I can't be surprised that much, after seeing the same distortion happening
where the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi
<https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/tutsigenocide#:~:text=On%207%20April%2C%20UNESCO%20commemorates,the%20Hutu%20extremist%2Dled%20government.>
is
termed as the Rwandan genocide
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide>, a statement used by
deniers.

On Sat, 11 Feb 2023 at 03:36, Clover Moss <clovermosswikipedia@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Piotrus and Volunteer Marek, among others, are Wikipedians mentioned in
> the above article. I contacted those two individuals because I felt it was
> fair for them to be aware that people were discussing them in an off wiki
> venue. Anyways, Piotrus said that I could share their response:
> Thank you for the information, but I am unsure how to find that particular
> discussion. I am aware of the general context (the article), which is being
> discussed in some places on Wikipedia. My quick comment on it is that this
> article contains numerous errors and inaccuracies (mixed with an occasional
> fair point or critique, nothing is white and black), and seems
> significantly based on data provided to the researches by a very tainted
> source, i.e. globally banned user Icewhiz, who was first topic banned the
> Polish-Jewish topic area by ArbCom, then site banned from Wikimedia
> Projects for harassment of myself, Volunteer Marek and others. You are
> welcome to post my above message there through a direct quote.
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 12:38 p.m. <adamhrngzo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I would like to bring this scholarly article to your urgent attention:
>> Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust (
>> https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25785648.2023.2168939) Even
>> though it's title is somewhat suspicious it describes a very specific
>> problem on English Wikipedia which is tragic and unacceptable. I'm happy to
>> help any way I can to solve this but I hope that admins will act on this as
>> soon as possible.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Adam
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